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The funding will begin to fill the gaps. It is clear that 46 per cent extra in funding will help and will widen to every local authority the potential to have input into such services.
Single parents who are young or who get involved with drink or drugs will go on incapacity benefit, because the Government is offering an extra £20 a week. That is their way of getting more money to survive on.
Similarly, given the shortage of platform space in Glasgow Central station, would not the issue of the construction of an extra platform at that station be tackled regardless of the outcome of our deliberations?
People are over-optimistic, mainly because they do not budget in the first place and they convince themselves that they can take on an extra loan because they want a holiday or a car.
The question is whether it would be possible to structure CalMac in such a way as it was expected to squeeze extra revenue or reduce costs beyond what we would expect from a normal operation.
Of course, the majority make a successful transition back into civilian life, but a minority need extra help to make the transition as smooth and trouble free as possible.
The committee asked Anne Swarbrick to provide a background note on the origins of the proposed regulatory regime; she has submitted an extra note for this meeting, on which I would like to comment.